Sunday Feature: Heinrich Heine: The First Modern European

One day, three decades after the event, German poet and man of letters Heinrich Heine stood on the site of the Battle of Marengo, one of Napoleon's earliest and most important victories and had an epiphany: `There are no more nations in Europe, only parties; and it is marvellous to see how these parties, for all their varying colouration recognize one another and how they understand one another, despite many differences in language." Michael Goldfarb tells the story of Heine's life and the Europe in which he lived using the musical settings of his poetry in lieder, readings from his poetry and plays, and George Eliot's perceptive comments